Blaze destroys Peter Street apartment

The fire was apparently begun accidentally by a little boy playing with a lighter in a closet of the apartment at 489-B N. Peter St.

Four people were at home when the fire broke out shortly before noon, but no one was hurt, said. Lt. Bruce Jeffers of the Athens-Clarke County Fire Department.

The fire was confined to one room after firefighters poured about 500 gallons of water on it, but ''it pretty much totaled the apartment out,'' he said. The 4-year-old boy said he had been playing with the lighter, though because of his young age fire investigators can't say with complete certainty it was the cause of the fire, Jeffers said.